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Topic: List of Libertarian Politicians and Media Personalities


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  Libertarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Libertarians define "coercion" as the use of physical force, the threat of such, or deception (fraud), that alters, or is intended to alter, the way individuals would use their body or property.
Libertarian perspectives on abortion: The abortion debate among libertarians centers around whether the fetus is a person (and thus has its own rights) or a part of the mother's body (in which case it is subject to her wishes).
Libertarian perspectives on animal rights: Some libertarians grant basic rights to animals (they count as individuals and therefore have the right not to be subjected to coercion), while others see animals as property, and think their owners are free to treat them as they wish.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libertarian   (6650 words)

  
 The Media Bias Page
The anti-Bush media bias that preceded the President's re-election was back in a big way at the end of the year when officials of the United Nations and some influential journalists started a campaign blaming the U.S. for being "stingy" and "slow" to respond to the Asian tsunami disaster.
Media Bias on Media Bias: One of the incredible feats of media journalists is denying that there is media bias by equating it with conspiracy theories.
Media Bias Basics: This study shows the political composition of the media — voting patterns, political affiliations and beliefs — as expressed to researchers by the reporters themselves.
www.akdart.com /media.html   (8665 words)

  
 PressThink: Editor and Publisher Wants Answers: Are Newsrooms Too Liberal? Very Tricky Question.
Media bias discussions (including dismissals of the bias charge) are a popular way of participating in the news— and of intervening in journalism as it rolls along.
What they are saying is they don’t want to admit their personal viewpoints, or alternatively, that they have subscribed to the myth that their viewpoints don’t keep them from being “professional” and “objective,” or even that they actually are moderate (which I doubt is true for most who claim to be).
Sure, it can be (and is) argued by conservatives that the mainstream media accepts more liberal political claims at face value than conservative ones, but as Bob Somerby continually details, the MSM swallowed the Republican-fed spin that Al Gore was a serial liar during the 2000 campaign when the facts show that wasn't the case.
journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/06/17/bias_ward.html   (16611 words)

  
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The establishment media's contempt for gun owners is so intense that the veracity of the story is of little import.
Politicians who confuse media opinion with public opinion are intimidated into enacting more and more severe restrictions on gun owners.
Thus, the legislator thinks that his letter to a young person may be brought to a history or civics class for discussion, or at the very least talked about within the young person's family.
www.ccrkba.org /pub/rkba/books/dfndgr.txt   (21541 words)

  
 Write  Lightning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
If a blogger takes money from a politician for writing positive things about the politician and/or that politician's favorite programs it would seem to me that disclosing that fact in one's blog would be the decent thing to do.
The problem is that a person who is not comfortable unless he or she is "in charge" will still tend to use such input to advance his or her own agendas and positions.
Then again, a person recovering from quadruple bypass surgery might heal and go away if he or she stopped eating all that high-fat food, so maybe the hospitals are just angling for repeat business.
www.writelightning.com /cgi-bin/blog/2005/01   (6998 words)

  
 the evangelical outpost: Media Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Whether a person trusts news stories about monkeys “flying from the trees, a juicy apple stapled to its palm” or tales of a Palestinian Jew who turns water into wine has less to do with who we find credible than with what we consider conceivable.
Each area of the the media, including blogs and small web publications, should be alloted space that they would share with their counterparts.
The mainstream media, of course, believes it would be gauche to even ask Kerry if he had a store-bought tan, much less draw a comparison to the wee, wise candy workers.
www.evangelicaloutpost.com /archives/cat_media.html   (16997 words)

  
 Chicago Sun-Times - My Favorite Website
Politicians on both sides of the aisle routinely twist the truth.
This Web-based tool is a personal assistant that keeps track of what you've borrowed and sends you e-mail alerts when materials are coming due or are overdue.
It lists locations in the state where free tax preparation services are available from the nonprofit Center for Economic Progress.
www.suntimes.com /special_sections/clickhere/index.html   (4071 words)

  
 Thirteen Questions for George W. Bush
Since Bush is as inaccessible as any politician, we suggest that readers forward these questions to every Bush supporter they know, from rank-and-file voters to media personalities.
Although we now know there are no earth-shattering technical problems in the offing, the media have done their damnedest to panic the nation over it.
Maybe this list should be forwarded to the League of Women Voters in preparation for the 2000 debates.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3767cec140e8.htm   (1398 words)

  
 Politics
World Social Forum is an open meeting place where groups and movements engaged in building a planetary society centred on the human person, come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.
The listings are incomplete as the development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
The country listings note when entries were last updated and there is also a section highlighting material that has been added to the site in the last thirty days.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVpolitics.htm   (9607 words)

  
 Davids Medienkritik: Biased German Media Confronted by Reality
And since it also offended that person to view actions as a continuation of a nation’s history and culture as well as the actions of both a nation's media and elected government then there is no context to make any comment other than in total isolation.
Many German politicians and most of the German media are in fact, through their "understanding" for Israel's mortal enemies, nothing less than moral accomplices of the criminal terror against the Jews.
Some European media are struggling today to reconcile this incredible display of courage and yearning for democracy by the Iraqi people with the distorted picture they have been painting of supposedly abject American failure in Iraq.
medienkritik.typepad.com /blog/2005/01/biased_german_m_1.html   (14271 words)

  
 The View From 1776   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The basic rottenness of American society today is the decay of individual morality and personal responsibility stemming from the barrage of socialistic economic and social-control programs rammed through Congress in the famous first 100 Days of the New Deal.
As I explained to a libertarian friend: “The moral vacuum left by the arrogance of self-centered man that produced transitional libertarianism in Europe only rolled out the red carpet for the tyranny that moral relativism leads to.
I believe that libertarianism and leftwing liberalism developed from a backslide into paganism and sin, and that because of the unnecessary division of Christianity via what I call the BPC factor.
www.thomasbrewton.com /index.php/weblog/2005/04   (6981 words)

  
 It is the answer to everything | Samizdata.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
According to a recent opinion poll, every single person in the UK has pledged that they will murder their own children and then kill themselves horribly unless the government issues them with a biometric ID card immediately.
He is correct in implying that we are all multiple personalities to some extent, even to the state.
The politicians appear to believe that it is a response to their short term requirements.
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/005960.html   (4445 words)

  
 Mises Economics Blog: Austrian Economics and Libertarian Political Theory
Here is Robert LeFevre's classic argument for a purely free society, the essay that made him a leading, if controversial, spokesman for the libertarian position on government and society in the 2nd half of the twentieth century.
The topics ranged from abstract philosophical considerations of methodology and libertarianism to more concrete applications of theoretical insights to history and current political and social issues.
Politicians and regulators forced a sham of a "deregulation" scheme upon the energy industry in California, writes Adam Summers, and then blamed the free market when it inevitably failed.
blog.mises.org /blog   (6527 words)

  
 We the Media - by Dan Gillmor [Authorama]
Personal choice, assisted by the power of personal tech­nology, was in the wind.
The key thing about lists is that they tend to be populated by a com­bination of experts in a given field or topic, and by avidly inter­ested lay people.
Most mail lists have a small readership, such as the “Blog­rollers” group Winer created in 2003 where webloggers tip each other about new postings they think might be especially note­worthy for their peers.
authorama.com /book/we-the-media.html   (21671 words)

  
 SJLBIB
An important point underscores the examination: personal privacy is being assaulted to a greater degree than the authors had suspected at the outset of their study.
The list voices of the past -- workers struggling for decent working conditions, women dying from lack of access to birth control information -- were silenced by those in power who knew the First Amendment lacked teeth.
She looks at life in prison across regions and across cultural traditions, describing the personal and very disturbing experiences of prisoners as well as the treatment of minorities, women, and juveniles.
www.soc.qc.edu /Staff/levine/sjlbib.htm   (18492 words)

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